The better team over the 80 minutes won. Can't knock Fax for effort but again, instead of playing the patient game, we reverted to forcing the pass at key moments.

Batley's defence was excellent, and Handforth's kicking was the difference.

I think the most concerning point for Halifax was how inept we looked in attack when Penky wasn't on the pitch. We seemed to lack ideas and, at times, it was like watching England Rugby Union passing the ball down the line, no-one moving forward, with it eventually ending up with an isolated winger.

Our kicking game was much better in the second half, but then having done the hard work and got ahead, instead of consolidating, we through a forward pass in their 20 metres and lost our momentum.

No complaints from me Bob I thought the ref gave some strange ones but our Fax side got plenty in there favour when it could have easily gone to you guys.
We were poor and back to how we have been in the earlier games, cannot complete a set of six and cannot defend a set.
Get your selves up Fax and well played Batley.

The ref wasn't great, but sod that. What a fantastic spectacle that was today, between two sets of part-time professionals in blistering heat. Even if my team hadn't won, I'd still have been able to look back and appreciate what a superb encounter it was. Incredible stuff. Some might scoff, but a number of Championship sides, with the benefit of full-time training, wouldn't look out of place in the lower end of Super League. Some of the players are actually of a better standard than those who occupy places in SL squads. What a great competition the Championship is.

Great spectacle today between 2 fully committed sides on a roasting.

Even at 22-6 I thought we were along way from safe, and once you got your noses in front I honestly thought that was it, as you were dominant in terms of both territory and possession. But, we have a great spirit this year and a 'never say die' atttitude, which saw us turn it around.

Very impressed with Penkyowicz for you guys, a class player. Him and Tiger Handforth the 2 best players on the pitch.

Really good day all in all, including some banter with the Fax fans behind the goal. Had to laugh at the 'bus stop in Dewsbury' chant.

Really pleasing to see quite a larger number of your fans clapping our team at the end as they came to applaud us. Thats what RL is all about.

Good luck for the rest of the season, except for your trip to the Mount of course, and hope you enjoy your day in Blackpool as much as we did last year.

Think you will make the top 6?

Thanks for mis-quoting me. I was actually just having a tongue in cheek pop. I thought the referee was equally bad for both sides and made soem weird decisiions.

I actually did say that I thought Batley were the better team and deserved the win.

I am also struggling to find where anyone actually says that the referee caused our loss?

No sour grapes here. We didnt play to our potential and your team did, end of. Well done.